Publicado por Me voy a ir a la tumba convencido de que Morrissey es el mejor escritor de canciones en la historia del Reino Unido. Sí, es un loco, un pirómano. Mientras pasan los días y la contribución del tío Johnny es justamente cada vez más reivindicada (el guitarrista más influyente de este lado de los ochentas), Esteban se empeña en poner en segundo plano la inacabable cosecha de belleza que recogió con su pluma.
Aun así, y a pesar de que puedo ser cancelado por asociación, quise compilar las que a mi juicio son las cuarenta líneas o estrofas que por su belleza, estructura, agudez, oscuridad o desternillante absurdo demuestran el nivel del autor del copete y las gladiolas.
40.
Each household appliance
Is like a new science in my town
39.
Belligerent ghouls
Run Manchester schools
Spineless bastards, all
38.
I once had a child, and it saved my life
And I never even asked his name
I just looked into his wondrous eyes
And said, «Never, never, never again»
37.
Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera
In the midst of life we are in debt, etcetera
36.
Hindley wakes and says
Hindley wakes, Hindley wakes
Hindley wakes and says
«Oh, whatever he has done, I have done»
35.
You tug my arm, and say «give in to lust
Give up to lust, oh heaven knows we’ll
Soon be dust»
34.
Typical me, typical me, typical me
I started something and now I’m not too sure
33.
Under the iron bridge we kissed
And although I ended up with sore lips
It just wasn’t like the old days anymore
32.
I crashed down on the crossbar
And the pain was enough to make
A shy, bald, Buddhist reflect
And plan a mass murder
31.
I had a really bad dream
It lasted 20 years, 7 months, and 27 days
30.
I left the South, I travelled North
I got confused, I killed a horse, I can’t help the way I feel
29.
Her very Lowness with her head in a sling
I’m truly sorry, but it sounds like a wonderful thing
28.
You’re clever
Everybody’s clever nowadays
You’re clever
Everybody’s clever nowadays
27.
A double bed and a stalwart lover, for sure
These are the riches of the poor
26.
Too freely on your lips words prematurely sad
Oh, but I know what will make you smile tonight
Life is never kind, life is never kind
Oh, but I know what will make you smile tonight
25.
What she asked of me at the end of the day
Caligula would have blushed
24.
Let me get my hands on your mammary glands
And let me get your head on the conjugal bed
23.
I left the North again, I travelled South again
And I got confused, I killed a nun, I can’t help the way I feel
22.
It’s so easy to laugh, it’s so easy to hate
It takes strength to be gentle and kind
21.
I won’t share you, no, I won’t share you
I’ll see you somewhere, I’ll see you sometime
Darling…
20.
We can go for a walk where it’s quiet and dry
And talk about precious things
But the rain that flattens my hair, oh
These are the things that kill me
19.
And you never knew how much I really liked you
Because I never even told you
Oh, and I meant to
18.
I was looking for a job and then I found a job
And heaven knows I’m miserable now
17.
So scratch my name on your arm with a fountain pen
This means you really love me
16.
Oh, but dreams have a knack of just not coming true
And time is against me now
15.
Oh-oh, sweetness, sweetness, I was only joking when I said
By rights you should be bludgeoned in your bed
14.
Burn down the disco, hang the blessed DJ
Because the music that they constantly play
It says nothing to me about my life
13.
So you go and you stand on your own, and you leave on your own
And you go home and you cry and you want to die
12.
Tried living in the real world instead of a shell
But before I began, I was bored before I even began
11.
I know, ‘cause tonight is just like any other night
That’s why you’re on your own tonight
10.
The note I wrote as she read, she said
«Has the Perrier gone straight to my head
Or is life sick and cruel, instead?»
«Yes!»
No – no – no – no – no – no
9.
And when I’m lying in my bed
I think about life and I think about death
And neither one particularly appeals to me
8.
Others conquered love, but I ran and sat in my room and I drew up a plan
Oh, but plans can fall through, as so often they do
7.
And in the darkened underpass
I thought «Oh God, my chance has come at last»
But then a strange fear gripped me and I just couldn’t ask
6.
The dream has gone but the baby is real
Oh, you did a good thing
She could have been a poet or, she could have been a fool
Oh, you did a bad thing
And I’m not happy and I’m not sad
5.
What she said «I smoke ‘cause I’m hoping for an early death
And I need to cling to something!»
4.
Now I know how Joan of Arc felt
As the flames rose to her Roman nose
And her Walkman started to melt
3.
And if you must go to work tomorrow
Well, if I were you I wouldn’t bother
For there are brighter sides to life and I should know because I’ve seen them
But not very often
2.
I don’t dream about anyone
Except myself
1.
There’s more to life than books, you know,
But not much more